Chapter 1278 The situation in northern Xinjiang (Part 2)

Up to the top of the city, Huang Fu looked at the wolf smoke outside the city and said to Wang Yinglin: "Mr. Wang, it seems that the Yuan army is about to break through the borders of our Song Dynasty."

"Um."

Wang Yinglin nodded slightly and said, "From Jiangling Prefecture, Ezhou, and Jianning Prefecture, letters have been reported, and the Yuan army in various places are ready to move. They are going to launch a decisive battle."

Huang Fu's eyes narrowed slightly, "It seems that the assassination of Commander Liu Zaiyuan made them very confident now."

Wang Yinglin only said: "No matter whether General Liu Zaiyuan was assassinated or not, this day will come sooner or later. This may not be a bad thing for us. The emperor also wants to end the war soon. We are short of soldiers. If these Yuan troops do not come to attack the city on their own initiative, our Longxing Prefecture and the Ezhou defenders on Jinghu North Road will be in a dilemma."

Before, the Yuan army only lived in Jiangnan East Road. There is still the territory of the Yuan Dynasty.

Huang Fu said: "Then let's guard this Longxing Mansion to see what skills these Yuan troops have to take over this city."

Lu Guang, on the side, suddenly spoke, "Not only do we have to defend, but in my opinion, we also have to create opportunities to break out of the city and defeat these Yuan troops!"

Ma Xiu nodded slightly too.

This place is still far away from Fuzhou, so they don’t have to think about helping Fuzhou. They just need to defeat this group of tens of thousands of Yuan troops.

Go east further.

Jinghu North Road, the northern border town of Ezhou.

Here, He Fangsong, Jin Hao, and Jiang Xiu led the three imperial guards of Tianying, Tianfu and Tianman to guard the guard. The situation is actually similar to that of Longxing Prefecture.

It’s just that the Yuan army they faced was invading from Huainan West Road. As soon as they entered the Song Dynasty, they were approaching Ezhou City.

There are a lot of soldiers compared to Longxing Prefecture, and there must be more than 100,000.

In the past two months, He Fangsong and others have not fought with this Yuan army. The Yuan army is guarding Ezhou City on Huainan West Road, and it seems that they are in peace.

But in fact, since the Yuan army planned to invade Song territory and had already stationed on the border, the undercurrent was inevitable.

Both sides sent experts to assassinate.

Take Jin Hao, Jiang Xiu and others as an example. In the past two months, they have been assassinated by dozens of assassinations.

The only thing about assassination is to be unexpected, and the more you go to the back, the more difficult it is to make achievements. Both sides continue to assassinate, and few generals fall.

At the beginning of the city, he watched the Yuan army pressing down the city, He Fangsong, Jin Hao, Jiang Xiu and his commander were discussing, and he did not have the idea of ​​leading his army out of the city to fight bloody battles.

They were no longer in a hurry at this time.

They couldn't take care of Fuzhou. Kuizhou and Guangnan West Road won successive victory one after another, and they just needed to block the Yuan army outside Ezhou City.

Now it is no longer the situation where the Song Dynasty imperial guards are eager to seek a decisive battle.

They even said that they were willing to continue to delay.

Because it was delayed enough time, the emperor would send Yuan troops to come from Jinghu North Road and Kuizhou Road. However, it would be much easier to defeat these Yuan troops.

Therefore, the Song army in Ezhou and Longxing Prefecture were only actively preparing for war to defend the city. Unlike Jianning Prefecture where Wen Tianxiang was in charge, they were eager to defeat the Yuan army.

Let’s talk about Jiangling Prefecture.

After Yelu Zhu sent a master to assassinate Liu Zaiyuan, his army was quite motivated and he naturally took advantage of this opportunity to launch a large-scale invasion.

Three days ago, his army had already gathered in Changlin County. He also reported to the Yuan army outside Ezhou and Longxing Prefecture, and directly sent troops to Jiangling Prefecture.

This is more or less beyond the expectations of Su Quandang and others.

Because in their opinion, the Yuan army should have attacked Dangyang County first. After all, Liu Zaiyuan, the commander of the Tianli Army guarding Dangyang County, had been assassinated. Although the acting commander Yu Xingwen actively built fortifications in the county, his strength was ultimately incomparable to Jiangling Mansion, which had Su Quandang Tiangang Army and Jiangling Mansion Garage Army, and Changde Mansion Garage Army.

The Yuan Dynasty was approaching Jiangling Prefecture, which could be said to be a virtual attack, which was contrary to the military books that avoided the real attack, and attacked the virtual attack.

But if you think about it carefully, there are some wonders about the Yuan army.

First of all, the Song army could be unexpected, and perhaps the Song army in Jiangling Prefecture was neglected to prevent.

Furthermore, regardless of Dangyang, the army can continue to maintain morale and avoid losing many soldiers.

Anyway, the Tianli Army, which had less than 10,000 people in Dangyang County, may not dare to come to Jiangling Prefecture to provide assistance. Even if it comes, the Yuan army can also distribute troops to intercept it.

It is said that it is to avoid the virtual and attack the real, but it can be said that it is to directly attack Huanglong. Whether this strategy is so sophisticated depends on whether it can successfully take over Jiangling Mansion.

And this strategy was naturally thought of by Yelu Zhu.

Lu Wenhuan was cautious by nature and was the best at making steady progress. His idea was to first step into Dangyang, destroy the Tianli army, and then attack Jiangling Prefecture.

His actions may have lured the Song army in Jiangling Prefecture out of the city. From a strategic perspective alone, it is more stable.

Unfortunately, Yelu Zhu is the one who holds real power in the army now, and Yelu Zhu does not trust him all. He insists on fighting Jiangling, so he may not be in abide by Lu Wenhuan and the Song army.

No matter what, the Yuan army eventually arrived outside Jiangling Prefecture.

At this moment, the soldiers on both sides were already in a fight.

There was constant sound of artillery fire at the top of the city.

The Yuan army had two 10,000-man formations at the same time launched an attack from outside the north gate of Jiangling Prefecture. The two armies used grenade launchers and catapults to shoot at each other.

Su Quandang personally stood at the city wall to supervise the battle.

Faced with an army of only 20,000 yuan, he only asked the Tiangang Army to defend the city. The soldiers of the Jiangling Prefecture Garage Army and the Changde Prefecture Garage Army were arranged to stand by.

It is not yet time for the two armies to truly confront each other in full swing.

Although Yelu Zhu sent 20,000 troops to attack the city, everyone could see that this was just a test. Because the Yuan army did not even use hot air balloons.

The fight lasted from dawn to this afternoon.

The Yuan army launched several waves of attacks and were successively repelled by the artillery fire of the Song army on the city. The two armies suffered losses, but in general, the Yuan army, which had attacked the city, suffered much greater losses.

Originally, Lu Wenhuan led an army of 130,000 to set out from Xiangyang. Until now, the remaining soldiers are probably less than 70,000.

It is not easy to destroy Jiangling Prefecture with such troops.

After the Yuan army's offensive was repelled, the army slowly retreated into the barracks.

Yelu Zhu, Lu Wenhuan and others looked bad, and they walked into the handsome tent with a cold face.

As soon as he entered the tent, Yelu Zhu hummed: "These Song army's grenade launchers are really hard to deal with!"

After several waves of temptations, his army under his command could not even climb up the city wall under the bombardment of the Song army's grenade launcher.
Chapter completed!